what the hay

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

Hope you mean she was going to pay you.

I wish, that's what she wanted me to pay for it. I told her it wasn't even worth it at that price and told her what I do to them and she came back with "Yeah yeah, I see it on the news. People like you take this stuff apart and ship the rest to third world countries". Told her I was part of a network of scrappers where this doesn't happen but have yet to hear from her on the matter.

There have been numerous recent threads about CRTs and the difficulty in handling them properly and following the federal and various state regulations.

I am writing this only to be informative, not trying to bust anybody's balls or give anyone a hard time.

I am going to post a link to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency "Export requirements for Cathode Ray Tubes" at the end of this post. Everyone needs to know that there are only a handful, maybe only 1 or 2, US companies that can completely process (and do it according to all regulations) CRTs. In the EPA website, there is a list (only 2 companies) that are approved to export CRTs for recycling. These approvals are good until April and August of 2015. There are only 3 countries were CRTs can currently be exported to (Canada, Mexico and Netherlands). There are numerous companies listed that can export for re-use. If you are in a predictament, you may want to look thru this list. I will warn people that things have changed dramatically in the last year or so. I had discuss CRT recycling with one of these companies about 18 months ago. At that time, they would pay for CRTs. Now they don't want them.

Some of you may want to read up on what is required to become one of those companies that are certified to export, either for recycling or for re-use.

I would strongly recommend that anyone currently or planning on doing E-waste and specifically CRTs to read thru the information at this link. Before you jump into something, you need to be fully informed. This goes for other scrap items, like refrigerant bearing items, in addition to CRTs. I know some people get easily annoyed with posts like this, so again, I'm not trying to tell anyone how to run their operations, just to do some research before you get yourself in a bind.

Export Requirements for Cathode Ray Tubes | International Waste Activities | US EPA

Happy scrapping to all of you and may the new year be more profitable than last.